Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 12

How lofty the houses seemed, and what a number of people there were in the streets! some pushing this way, some that--a perfect maelstrom of citizens and peasants, monks and soldiers--the jingling of bells on the trappings of asses and mules, the chiming of church bells, calling, shouting, hammering and knocking--all going on at once.

Who acts: lofty houses, some · What happens: seem, push, chime, call, shout, hammer · To what, where: that, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lofty houses, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 lofty	advmod
2	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 houses	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 houses	det
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 seemed	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 number	det
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 number	nmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 people	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 streets	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streets	det
17	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 pushing	nsubj
20	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pushing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 that	appos
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 seemed	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 maelstrom	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 maelstrom	det
28	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 maelstrom	amod
29	maelstrom	maelstrom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 citizens	case
31	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 maelstrom	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 peasants	cc
33	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 citizens	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 monks	punct
35	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 citizens	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 soldiers	cc
37	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 citizens	conj
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 jingling	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 jingling	det
40	jingling	jingling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 maelstrom	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 bells	case
42	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 jingling	nmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 trappings	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 trappings	det
45	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bells	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 asses	case
47	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 trappings	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 mules	cc
49	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 asses	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 chiming	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 chiming	det
52	chiming	chime	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 jingling	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 bells	case
54	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 bells	compound
55	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 chiming	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 calling	punct
57	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 chiming	appos
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 shouting	punct
59	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 calling	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 hammering	punct
61	hammering	hammer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 calling	conj
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 knocking	cc
63	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 hammering	conj
64	--	--	PUNCT	_	66 going	punct
65	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 going	advmod
66	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 maelstrom	conj
67	on	on	ADP	_	66 going	compound:prt
68	at	at	ADP	_	69 once	case
69	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	66 going	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the lofty houses	that		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	push	gerund	some	this way		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	chime	gerund	the lofty houses not said here		of church bells	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	gerund				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shout speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hammer	gerund				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
7	knock	gerund				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
8	go on	gerund	the lofty houses not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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